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If you're exhausted, check whether the work has drifted from your purpose. Cut one task that drains you and adds nothing your customer would miss.
Burnout comes from doing meaningless work for too long, not from doing meaningful work too hard.
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- Build something that would outlive your interest in it, then fall in love with it anyway.
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